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United States Patent | 5,179,650 |
Fukui ,   et al. | January 12, 1993 |
An apparatus and method for editing a document to automatically produce a satisfactory, well ordered layout which includes the steps of (a) extracting characteristic quantities which characterize different elements of the document; (b) deriving relationships among the different elements of the document in accordance with the characteristic quantities; (c) determining a layout of the different elements of the document in accordance with the relationships; and (d) processing the document in accordance with the layout.
Inventors: | Fukui; Mika (Yokohama, JP); Iwai; Isamu (Kawasaki, JP); Doi; Miwako (Kawasaki, JP); Takebayashi; Yoichi (Yokohama, JP) |
Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 860119 |
Filed: | March 31, 1992 |
Jan 21, 1988[JP] | 63-9586 |
Current U.S. Class: | 715/520; 715/514; 715/518; 715/521 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 015/20 |
Field of Search: | 395/144-149 358/403 |
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